Dawn Liturgies (2000) was commissioned by the 2000 Northern Lights Music Festival and is dedicated to David Cope. The work is in three movements in contrasting moods. The outer two movements are slow-moving and ethereal and the middle movement is fast and energetic. The middle movement serves as a “reflecting board” for the outer two movements which are musical palindromes of each other. In other words, Aurora II is a “note-for-note” reversal of Aurora I.